@lbu-rae.bsky.social
Spreading the news of our research and enterprise activities at Leeds Beckett University #LBUresearch linktr.ee/lbu_rae
A close-up image of the top of LBU's James Graham Building, showing a flag in the wind and blurred flowers in the foreground.
👏Seven LBU colleagues have been recognised by @ukcge.bsky.social for their commitment to high quality supervision of our postgraduate #research students!
🗞️ bit.ly/48KBbBE
⬆️ Read all about our colleagues receiving the Recognised Supervisor and Associate Supervisor Awards.
#PhDSky #AcademicSky
If you know a researcher whose work should feature on Radio4 - technology, humanities, social sciences & arts - consider telling them to apply for the AHRC BBC New Generation Thinkers scheme www.ukri.org/opportunity/...
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Five members of the LBU Postgraduate Research Community together in the Rose Bowl entrance during the PGR Conference 2025.
✍️Every 2 years we ask our Postgraduate Researchers to tell us all about their experience at LBU.
Find out all about this year's feedback, what we've learnt, what we've done so far, and what we're planning next to improve our PGR student experience!
➡️ bit.ly/4ixiXHj
#PhDSky #PGR #ResearchCommunity
KTP at 50 logo - 50 YEARS in the centre of a circle of gold arrows
🌟This year we are celebrating 50 years of Knowledge Transfer Partnerships! #KTP
Read our blog post to find out how we've been celebrating at LBU, where we have more now 20 active KTPs and have been part of the programme since the late 1970s!
🔗 bit.ly/49U8SSB
#AcademicSky #research
The Being Here team with their award on stage at the Great Hall
Our final Research and Knowledge Exchange Award blog post is all about our Research-Informed Teaching Impact stars.
🏆 bit.ly/485PXD0
Our winners were the cross-university team, Being Here, a fantastic research-led initiative to encourage community-building for international students. #RKEFest25
Close up of the Professional Excellence Award tropy at the awards event
Our next Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards spotlight is on the Professional Excellence Award, which was won this year by Katherine Moss in our School of Health.
🏆 bit.ly/4oqcqQ3
Congratulations Katherine! #RKEFest25
The programme brings high quality education into the long-term high secure Category A and B men’s prison. The work helps inmates gain real-world qualifications through targeted study that increases their life chances.
@shsslbu.bsky.social #AcademicSky #Criminology #research #LBUResearch
Dr Alexandria Bradley and Dr Bill Davies
Huge congratulations to Dr Bill Davies and Dr Alexandria Bradley who have won the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Education for their pioneering partnership with HMP Full Sutton!
bit.ly/3KddU24
We were thrilled to be able to support them with additional HEIF funding for this amazing project.
Dr Helen Dampier being presented her award on stage.
Our next feature is on the Inclusive Research Culture Award, which was won this year by Dr Helen Dampier for her inspiring work building a Postgraduate #research community in the Centre for Culture and Humanities
🏆 bit.ly/3XNVkR8
Congratulations! #PhDSky #AcademicSky #RKEFest25
Dr Sofia Persson receiving her award on stage at the Great Hall.
In our next Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards blog post, we shine a spotlight on the Open and Responsible Research Award, won this year by Dr Sofia Persson @shsslbu.bsky.social for her fantastic work with @ukrepro.bsky.social
🏆 bit.ly/4rmcHpD
#RKEFest25 #AcademicSky #research
Dr Sarah Waite with her Research and Knowledge Exchange award
In our second Research and Knowledge Exchange feature, read all about our Community Impact Award winners and shortlistees.
🏆 bit.ly/4pu5pOX
Congratulations to @drswaite.bsky.social and Dr Alexandria Bradley who won the award for their research on Women’s Problem-Solving Courts! #RKEFest25
Colleagues with their award on stage at the Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards
Read all about our Research and Knowledge Exchange Award winners and shortlistees in our new blog series!
In our first post, find out all about our Collaborative Partnerships and Networks projects, including winners Digital Sport North and @carnegiesport.bsky.social #RKEFest25
🏆 bit.ly/49EX8Di
@obesityinst.bsky.social @carnegiesport.bsky.social #obesityresearch #LBUresearch #NorthernDigitalAwards2026
25.11.2025 09:35 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0We are delighted to share that our Obesity Institute's Every Body Deserves Kindness film project, in collaboration with Leeds Children's Hospital Appeal, SHINE, Wrapped, and young people and their families - has been shortlisted in the Northern Digital Awards! #AcademicSky
bit.ly/3XOoAap
The Great Hall at LBU full of colleagues and students at the Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards 2025 event.
🎉Last week we held our annual Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange - a fantastic two-day event collaborating, sharing expertise, and celebrating our inspiring work taking place across LBU through our Awards!
📰 bit.ly/3XaX0nD
Read all about it in our news story! #RKEFest25 #AcademicSky #LBU
Dr Lisa Taylor
💬Loss of Firth Carpets mills from Bailiff Bridge made villagers feel 'homesick at home' says Dr Lisa Taylor in her new interview at @yorkshirepost.co.uk
🗞️ bit.ly/3JZipNC
Lisa's new book, Threads of Labour, looks at how the loss of Clifton Mills affected her village.
#AcademicSky #research
It was such a pleasure to share the next part of my research on Polish defence lawyers & bringing women into the European/Cold War legal historical narrative. Great questions & listening to what colleagues are working on was icing on the cake, super job @lbu-rae.bsky.social
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Jennifer Rainford receiving her award for the PGR photo competition.
Dr Sarah Waite receiving the award for Community Impact.
Dr Sofia Persson receving her award.
And congratulations to @drswaite.bsky.social, Dr Alexandria Bradley, Dr Sofia Persson @shsslbu.bsky.social and our Postgrad Research Student Photo Competition winner, Jennifer Rainford!
Thank you to everyone who nominated colleagues and to our wonderful research community! #RKEFest25 #LBUResearch
Katherine Moss receiving her award on stage at the Great Hall.
The Being Here project team receiving their award on stage at the Great Hall.
Dr Helen Dampier receiving her award on stage at the Great Hall.
The Digital Sport North team receiving their award on stage at the Great Hall.
This afternoon we have been celebrating our fantastic research community with our annual Research and Knowledge Exchange Awards!
Congratulations to Katherine Moss, the Being Here team, Dr Helen Dampier + the Digital Sport North Team!
@carnegiesport.bsky.social @shsslbu.bsky.social
#RKEFest25
Richard Lamb presenting.
And thank you to our guest speaker Richard Lamb, Head of #KTP programmes at @innovateuk.bsky.social @ukri.org for telling us all about #KTPat50, the first ever KTP and the transformational power of the programme to help businesses make innovative advances using university knowledge. #RKEFest25
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Dr Agata Fijalkowski
Marielle Reuser
Dr Sandra Obiora
It is Day 2 of our Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange #RKEFest25 and we've heard inspiring and fascinating research talks from PhD student @mariellereuser.bsky.social and colleagues @agatafijalkow.bsky.social and Dr Sandra Obiora. Thank you for sharing your work! #PhDSky #AcademicSky
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Professor Emily Zobel Marshall, Professor Jill Dickinson, Dr Jamiu Dauda, Professor Sue Backhouse and Professor Silke Machold
What a fantastic panel discussion this afternoon at #RKEFest25!
@emilyzmarshall.bsky.social @suebackhouse.bsky.social @silkemachold.bsky.social Prof Jill Dickinson and Dr Jamiu Dauda have shared their experience of everything from balancing teaching and research to pracademia! #AcademicSky
A group of colleagues working together around a table, writing notes on a flip chart pad.
A group of colleagues working together around a table, writing notes on a flip chart pad.
Eleanor Broadbent speaking on stage with a presentation slide entitled 'Group Discussion: How do we use EDI related language in our roles?'
Next in our Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange, our #EDI team are leading group discussions around how we use EDI-related language at work, and what terms feel outdated, or empowering and inclusive.
#RKEFest25 #AcademicSky #PhDSky
Professor Silke Machold speaking on the stage at the Great Hall
Professor Udy Archibong speaking on the stage at the Great Hall
A screen showing a graphic reading Welcome to the 2025 Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange
"Belonging fuels excellence; and people do their best work when they feel valued." - An inspiring keynote talk on inclusivity and diversity this morning from @uduakarchibong1.bsky.social, to launch our Festival of Research and Knowledge Exchange! #RKEFest25
#AcademicSky @silkemachold.bsky.social
Join Tanya Arnold as she brings you a very special episode, we celebrate the remarkable people who’ve passed through the doors of the Leeds Beckett University.
🎧 Listening: open.spotify.com/episode/3w17...
📽️ Watch: youtu.be/XCsdU_-a1vo
#LBUSportHallofFame #CarnegieConversations
Newly-forming wetland and organic soil development after <10 years of glacier recession, Folgefonna National Park, Norway
Up to 83% of the world's glaciers are expected to vanish by 2100. New #research led by Dr Jenna Sutherland is turning glacier retreat into climate opportunity by studying how newly exposed land in Alaska can give rise to carbon-absorbing peatlands.
🔗 bit.ly/4o5qJJF
#climateresearch #AcademicSky
Juliet Harrison and Dr Lewis Simpson at Evidence Week, standing next to their stall reading 'Value-based metrics in prison'.
Why Evidence Matters! Last week, @jharrison66.bsky.social + @drlewissimpson.bsky.social took part in Evidence Week at UK Parliament.
🔗 bit.ly/47DTurO
⬆️Read all about their experience of showcasing #LBUResearch and lobbying for prisons policy change.
@senseaboutsci.bsky.social #AcademicSky
A medical professional in blue scrubs using a medical device on a patient's finger.
🤝New on our blog, Prof Anne-Marie Bagnall shares how our LBU Centre for Health Promotion Research is a leading force in public health innovation, actively contributing to the UN #SDGs
🔗 bit.ly/3WPQiDo
Read about how the team is empowering communities and reducing health inequalities #AcademicSky
Professor Theocharis Ispoglou
Join us on Wednesday 26 November for the Inaugural Professorial Lecture by @theo-ispoglou.bsky.social - Fuel and Force – Re-imagining Healthy Ageing
🕕18:00 - 19:00
🏛️Headingley Campus
🎫 bit.ly/47ykI39
#LBUResearch #AcademicSky #Nutrition #HealthyAgeing @carnegiesport.bsky.social
Fatin Nabilah Azren
Graphic reading 'LBU Research Voices'
In our latest LBU Research Voices, we met up with Fatin Nabilah Azren, a PhD student and MSc grad in @carnegiesport.bsky.social
🔗 bit.ly/4804eAP
Fatin shares her reflections on studying in the UK as an international Muslim woman and her goal to increase inclusion in sports spectatorship. #PhDSky
